PRESENTING SPONSOR
HONORARY CHAIRS

Gene & Jean Cochrane and Charles Thomas & Micaila Milburn

Thursday, November 2, 2023  |  Charlotte Convention Center

Melanie
Benjamin

image: Amy Bissonette

Roxane
Gay

Sadeqa
Johnson

image: Rhodes Photo LLC

Etaf
Rum

Brad
Taylor

image: Claudio Marinesco

Verse & Vino is Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation’s signature annual fundraiser. For a decade, this celebration of reading, writing and the joy of libraries – shared with a community of readers and New York Times best-selling authors – has become one of our region’s most anticipated events.

6:00 pm
Wine and cocktail hour, book sales, and book signings by the authors

7:00 pm
Dinner and Program

MENU

Fall salad with mixed greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, red cabbage with a white balsamic vinaigrette
gluten and dairy free

Land and Sea Duet: pan roasted salmon with green and golden tomato confit and chargrilled filet with a bourbon reduction, sauteed green beans and roasted potatoes
gluten free
–OR–
Barbecue Tofu with Job’s Tears (barley), succotash, roasted Roma tomato, southern green beans and baby carrots
vegan

Flourless chocolate torte (gluten free) or carrot cake

9:30 pm
Program ends with an opportunity for additional book sales and signings

Take a walk down Verse & Vino memory lane

Author Sponsor

First Edition Sponsors

Wine Sponsor

Technology Sponsor

Best Seller Sponsors

Collector Sponsors

Table Sponsors

AARP North Carolina

Stephanie Alger and family

Beacon Partners

Mary and Charles Bowman

Brown Brothers Harriman

Katie and Mark Caldwell

Carolina Complete Health

Charlotte Hornets

Cherry Bekaert, LLP

Jean and Gene Cochrane

Susan Daughtridge

LeRoy and Wayea Davis

Jessica Dienna

Miriam Dixon

Sarah and Ryan Dodd

Hamilton Stephens Steele + Martin, PLLC

Kara and Graham Hunt

Selena Giovannelli

Mark Kutny & George Sistrunk

Loftin & Co. Printers

Pete Keane’s “Get Lit” Table

Kelso Communications

Donna Lerner and Julie Lerner Levine

Lit Happens

Mecklenburg County

Nikki and North Moore

Caton and Charlie Morris

Katie and Walker Morris

Parker Poe, PLLC

PMC Commercial Interiors

Sally and Russell Robinson

Molly and Robert Griffin & Caroline and Bob Sink

TCG Events

Wray Ward

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Individual Sponsors

Helen Hope and Marcus Kimbrough

Kellie and Brandon Lofton

PerMar and Jon Olin

Mamie and Kevin Stichter

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